2001: Vincenzo Vecchi participates with 300,000 people in demonstrations against
the decisions taken by the superpowers during the G8 summit in Genoa. Therepression was extremely violent: 1 dead, hundreds of injured, acts of torturecommitted by the police (condemned by the European Court of Human Rights in2015). Italy decides to arrest 10 men and women as an example, based on the law"Devastation and pillage" promulgated under Mussolini, which allows you to arrestany demonstrator for "moral competition" with sentences ranging from 8 to 15years in prison. Vincenzo Vecchi is one of them and faces more than 10 years inprison. ---- 2016: Italy issues a European arrest warrant (MAE) against Vincenzowho decides to flee. He has been living in Brittany for 9 years. ---- 2019:Vincenzo is arrested. Two Courts of Appeal - first of Rennes and then of Angers -twice rejected the EAW, since the law of moral competition has no equal in Frenchlaw and the penalty is disproportionate for the crimes prosecuted (and withoutevidence, we recall) . The prosecutor is relentless and sends the affair to thecassation.January 2011: The Court of Cassation of Paris refuses to deliberate and prefersto ask the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) for an opinion on adelicate case that will in any case make jurisprudence.Question: can Mussolini's liberticidal law on which the EAW is based and thistotally absurd penalty be validated and therefore become part of the European andFrench legal space?Answer: 21 years after the facts and a year and a half after asking Europe for anopinion, we are scandalized by the decision of the CJEU made on July 14, 2022. Ofall the possible options, the CJEU has chosen the most radical, namely do notstop the machine of EAWs, regardless of the price to pay for European citizens.This means that the European Court prefers not to disturb the collaboration andagreements between these two countries, and this also to the detriment offundamental rights, ignoring the two decisions of justice taken by the appellatecourts of Rennes and Angers. And therefore in contempt of the independence of theFrench justice!It is incomprehensible and inadmissible that this could do jurisprudence in thefuture! We, the members of the support committee, do not accept this decision. Weremain more mobilized than ever to defend our friend Vincenzo and in general theright to demonstrate and fundamental freedoms.Sweden arrests Kurdish activist to extradite him: he begins to pay his debt forjoining NATO.The Swedish security service arrested Zinar Bozkurt on August 20. Now, he will beextradited to Turkey. The activist is accused of terrorism, as a member of theKurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), considered a threat to the country's security. Inrecent years, the 26-year-old has entered the center of the media debate and,above all, in the crosshairs of Turkish propaganda. In 2014 he arrived inStockholm and, two years later, he applied for asylum because he denounced beingpersecuted for his Kurdish identity and for his declared homosexuality. Butearlier this year, the Swedish secret services rejected her and decided onexpulsion. As already told in the interviews he has given in recent months,Bozkurt fears that once he is deported to Turkey he will be put in prison andtortured. Risk that the Swedish authorities exclude. His lawyer appealed to theEU Court of Justice because he considers this extradition warrant "illegal".The European Kurdish confederation KCDK-E has issued a statement condemningBozkurt's extradition: «Sweden commits a serious legal error if the Kurds aresacrificed to a NATO membership agreement. It is a fact that Zinar Bozkurt facesa lengthy prison sentence and severe torture if he is extradited to the Turkishfascist state. Instead of defending the independence of the judiciary anddemocratic standards, the Swedish government is bowing to the inhumane demands ofa dictator. "Erdogan said the Swedish government promised him "the delivery of 73 terrorists".On September 1, Zinar went on a hunger strike.Free AssangeThe human chain for Julian Assange surrounded Parliament in London on the morningof Saturday 8 October to demand the release of the founder of Wikileaks, who hasbeen detained for three years in the Belmarsh maximum security prison, known asthe "Guantanamo of London".It is another chapter in the sensational judicial saga that has raised questionsand doubts in Europe and in the world on the boundaries between freedom of thepress and national security of countries, which risks putting new limits on thepossibility of informing public opinion on the work of governments. Theindictment of Assange for espionage and conspiracy concerns the disclosure ofstate secrets through thousands of files disseminated by the organization hefounded, Wikileaks, in particular on war crimes committed by US soldiers duringthe conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.Numerous initiatives in support of Assange by organizations such as AmnestyInternational and appeals for his release: from the UN special envoy againsttorture Nils Melzer to the Nobel Peace Prize winner Adolfo Maria Pérez Esquivel.Computer analyst Edward Snowden, an American naturalized in Russia, argued that"Assange is a political prisoner". Solidarity and mobilizations have crossed theplanet, from Europe to Australia, where Assange's father, John Shipton, and hisbrother Gabriel lives. In Italy, public opinion awareness events were held,organized by the main press organs, starting with Fnsi, the Order of Journalistsand trade unions, concerned about the consequences that a negative verdict couldhave on freedom of information and human rights.https://www.sicilialibertaria.it/_________________________________________A - I N F O S N E W S S E R V I C EBy, For, and About AnarchistsSend news reports to A-infos-en mailing listA-infos-en@ainfos.ca
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